Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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He muses so kind,
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that are guided by wind,
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On the ocean, as well on the shore.
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how to handle his card,
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Without ceasing where billows do roar.
Not of Cupid he sings,
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nor of country nor kings,
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Or of any such trifle he thinks,
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But of seafaring, sail -making,
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frog -drinking, hear old John Hanks
When Jack comes on shore,
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and he's seldom cut short of a job
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He can dress as well now,
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with a good silver watch in his fob
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was near plagued with a wife,
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He's a seafaring, sail -making,
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John Hanks.
When inclined for to spend,
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he walks in with a friend
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And with pleasure he sits himself down
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He tips off his glass
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as he winks at the lass
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And he smiles if she happens to frown
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Like a rattling true blue,
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when the reckoning come due,
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on the table the money he clings.
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That sea -faring, sail -making,
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grog -drinking hero John Hinks.
Bout home the other fall,
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we fell in with a squall,
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We were cast away without
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at the thought of my spirit it chills.
We were cast up on rocks
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like a hard -hunted fox
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Then up death and destruction,
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That seafaring, sail -making,
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Grog -drinking hero John Hanks
Oh, Jack without fail
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was out in that same gale
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Having drove across Bonnevist Bay
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while he handled the sail,
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And he had their two spars cut away.
But Providence kind was
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And on seamen so constantly thinks.
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sail -making, gabbling,
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Capering, frog -drinking,
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here old John hinks.
O death it will come,
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like the sound of a drum,
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For to summon poor Jack to his grave.
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for you know all is true,
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Tis the fate of both hero and slave.
His soul soars afloat,
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While the bell for the funeral clinks.
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All peace to that seafaring, sail -making,
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gambling, dog -drinking hero, John Hanks.
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